Perspectives:
Acute pesticide exposures: keeping your eye on the ball
Huw Rees

 

Chiropractic manipulation, with a deliberate "double entendre"
Edzard Ernst

 

Atoms:
Atoms
Howard Bauchner

 

Leading articles:
Insulin injections in schools
Julie A Edge

 

Measuring the performance of an inter-hospital transport service
Padmanabhan Ramnarayan

 

Original articles:
UK childhood exposures to pesticides 2004–2007: a TOXBASE toxicovigilance study
R D Adams, D Lupton, A M Good, and D N Bateman

 

The incidence and aetiology of epistaxis in infants: a population-based study
S Paranjothy, David Fone, M Mann, F Dunstan, E Evans, A Tomkinson, J Sibert, and A Kemp

 

Prospective follow-up oral food challenge in food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome
J-B Hwang, S M Sohn, and A S Kim

 

Psychological problems in children with hemiplegia: a European multicentre survey
J Parkes, M White-Koning, N McCullough, and A Colver

 

Work of breathing during SIMV with and without pressure support
D-S Patel, G F Rafferty, S Lee, S Hannam, and A Greenough

 

Lifestyle intervention in obese children with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: 2-year follow-up study
T Reinehr, C Schmidt, A M Toschke, and W Andler

 

Changing trends in antiepileptic drug prescribing in girls of child-bearing potential
R Ackers, F M C Besag, A Wade, M L Murray, and I C K Wong

 

Short report:
Ataxia–telangiectasia patients presenting with hyper-IgM syndrome
J G Noordzij, N M Wulffraat, Á Haraldsson, I Meyts, L J van’t Veer, F B L Hogervorst, A Warris, and C M R Weemaes

 

Review:
Hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia
R R Kapoor, S E Flanagan, C James, J Shield, S Ellard, and K Hussain

 

Quality indicators and quality assessment in child health
P L Kavanagh, W G Adams, and C J Wang

 

Mind the gaps
C A Rees

 

Drug therapy:
Children’s medicines – a global problem
Imti Choonara

 

Once again, children are the main victims of fake drugs
Maurizio Bonati

 

Parental reporting of suspected adverse drug reactions in children in Lagos, Nigeria
K A Oshikoya, I O Senbanjo, and O F Njokanma

 

Ethical issues of clinical trials in children: a European perspective
H Sammons

 

Treatment of intestinal protozoan infections in children
A A Escobedo, P Almirall, M Alfonso, S Cimerman, S Rey, and S L Terry

 

PostScript:
Lack of use for advice by parents results in increasing attendance to the paediatric emergency department
S Tadros, D Wallis, and M Sharland

 

Physical education teachers’ knowledge of type 1 diabetes
L A Halpern and J C Agwu

 

 

Paediatric respiratory medicine
N Sargant

 

 

Miscellanea:
Hyperinsulinism-hyperammonaemia syndrome

 

 

"When someone stabs you": children’s perspectives of venepuncture
C Hands, J Round, and J Thomas

 

Acanthosis nigricans
S Marimuthu and B S Menon

 

Perianal rash: what lies beneath?
M A Anjay, V Palanivel, and J Chapman